The strategy of Rock, Paper, Scissors

Ashles said:
How to win a £10.5 million contract by playing Rock, Paper, Scissors strategically:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4521589.stm
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Not a lot of strategy there. How do these girls know that the opponent would lean to rock as the strongest play? They don't. So there is surely equal probability that they will go for any of the other options, one of which would be a winning strategy.

This is nothing but an post ex-post rationalisation of a win by chance.
 
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Drooper said:
Not a lot of strategy there. How do these girls know that the opponent would lean to rock as the strongest play? They don't. So there is surely equal probability that they will go for any of the other options, one of which would be a winning strategy.

This is nothing but an post ex-post rationalisation of a win by chance.
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You are underplaying the level of strategy involved:

Advanced RPS

I think those little girls would kick your ass. :)
 
Do you know that there is an actual rock,paper, scizzors 'Society'? I need to run out to my car to bring in the article about how Christies auction house was awarded the contract to auction artwork over another auction house by method of rock, paper, scizzors, earlier this year. The article mentioned the society in it. I wonder what kind of heady stuff they discuss?:D
 
I just got back from the library.

Here is some snippits from the article out of Thursdays's paper:

"The auctioneer (Christie's) made a handy profit Wednesday by selling four paintings for $17.8 million, having earned the right to conduct the sale by beating rival Sotheby's in what's been called the most expensive game of rock paper scissors ever played."

"...the World Rock Paper Scissors Society..."

Oh, by the way....the article's headline was: "Scissors cuts paper; Christies makes millions"
 
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Ashles said:
You are underplaying the level of strategy involved:

Advanced RPS

I think those little girls would kick your ass. :)
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OMG!!

I can now completely absolve myself of nerd status. I'm just not in the same league as that lot.:D
 
Well, they turn the game into a mental game.

IE: They throw rock three times to throw you off.


But, to tie them, just hook your moves up to a good random number generator.
 
Did anyone else see the Derren Brown show a couple of months ago on UK TV where he took on some guys off the street on RPS?

He won EVERY single time. I have no idea how, even accounting for the techniques mentioned in the above articles - there was no visible cloaking/delays/anything. The guy just freaks his opponents mentally.
 
From The Simpsons:

Lisa: Look, there's only one way to settle this: Rock-paper-scissors.

Lisa's brain: Poor predictable Bart. Always takes rock.
Bart's brain: Good ol' rock. Nuthin' beats that!

Bart: Rock!
Lisa: Paper.

Bart: D'oh!
 
Deetee said:
He won EVERY single time. I have no idea how, even accounting for the techniques mentioned in the above articles - there was no visible cloaking/delays/anything. The guy just freaks his opponents mentally.
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I don't know how he did it, but if I had to do a stunt like that on TV, I'd start with filming lots and lots of RPS matches and then editing them selectively.
 
Alkatran said:
But, to tie them, just hook your moves up to a good random number generator.
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Since you probably don't have an opportunity to use a good random number generator during a match, this means that you have to generate the sequence in advance and memorize it.
 
ooh_child said:
Luke T totally copied lamme!

:D
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It don't bother me none. You see, so many of you people over here get so bent out of shape over stuff like this without understanding the other person's circumstances. You jump to conclusions regarding motives.


This could have been what happened: Luke T worked hard all day. Get's off work and comes online. Sees the thread. Remembers about the auction house thing regarding rock, papers, scissors and quickly posts this without reading(all) the posts.
 
Iamme said:
It don't bother me none. You see... -- Perfectly reasonable and inteligent comentary by Iamme, but that's not really relevent here, so *snip* -- ...regarding rock, papers, scissors and quickly posts this without reading(all) the posts.
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*cough* (long running forum joke) :D
 
Iamme said:
Do you know that there is an actual rock,paper, scizzors 'Society'?
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Yes, and I participated in the last RPS World Championship (link). Pics here.

Got beaten in the first round by a guy in a Superman costume.
 
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